Biological sciences

Press releases

2024.12.05
Biological sciences

Insects wearing two hats solve botanical mystery

Press releases

2024.08.08
Biological sciences

Plants offer fruit to insects to disperse dust-like seeds

Press releases

2024.05.20
Biological sciences

What makes some brown algae shimmer and others not?

Press releases

2024.05.09
Biological sciences

New record holder for smallest dispersers of ingested seeds: Woodlice

Press releases

2024.04.30
Biological sciences

Clumps of this molecule inhibit strep’s DNA-cleaving enzymes

Features

2024.03.05
Biological sciences

Recreate development in a petri dish to understand how plants live

Press releases

2024.03.01
Biological sciences

A new plant’s name that tells a story

Press releases

2024.02.20
Biological sciences

Pollinator's death trap turns into nursery

Press releases

2023.10.18
Biological sciences

Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self

Press releases

2023.10.17
Biological sciences

Unique marimo threatened by rising lake temperatures

Press releases

2023.10.11
Biological sciences

Death is only the beginning

Press releases

2023.08.24
Biological sciences

Fungi-eating plants and flies team up for reproduction

Press releases

2023.03.17
Biological sciences

An elegant new orchid hiding in plain sight

Press releases

2023.03.10
Biological sciences

Leaf-like photosynthesis discovered in the roots of a leafless orchid

Press releases

2023.02.28
Biological sciences

The rediscovery of an ethereal fairy lantern brightly illuminates their mysterious past

Press releases

2023.01.24
Biological sciences

New discovery: Endangered Amami rabbit disperses seeds for non-photosynthetic plant

Press releases

2022.12.26
Biological sciences

Ethereal color variant of mysterious plant is actually a new species

Press releases

2022.12.20
Biological sciences

Male genitalia as an anti-predator defense

Press releases

2022.07.29
Biological sciences

Orchid helps insect get a grip

Press releases

2022.07.25
Biological sciences

Arisaema urashima’s ‘fishing rod’ reels in its primary pollinator

Press releases

2022.02.04
Biological sciences

Japanese squirrels can consume “poisonous” mushrooms

Interviews

2022.01.13
Biological sciences

Mysterious plants and multi-faceted symbioses

Press releases

2021.12.17
Biological sciences

Marimo have age rings!

Interviews

2021.07.30
Biological sciences

Expanding horizons of insect ecology research

Press releases

2021.06.29
Biological sciences

Parasites manipulate praying mantis’s polarized-light perception, causing it to jump into water

Press releases

2021.06.10
Biological sciences

A new mechanism behind continuous stem cell activity in plants

Press releases

2021.03.18
Biological sciences

How do humpback whales rest?

Press releases

2020.08.21
Biological sciences

What kind of animal transports the seeds of the world's smallest fruit-bearing plants?

Press releases

2020.08.11
Biological sciences

An ancient association?

Press releases

2020.08.05
Biological sciences

An insect species can actively escape from the vents of predators via the digestive system